Ever wondered what the cleanup after a stint looks like ? Why, allow me.

That's about a cubic meter of cut up paperwork, something to the tune of 20k pages.

That's about 500 KJ/s, or at the very least it feels like it were. Paper burns very hot. Secrets burn even hotter.

The thing with CDs (or DVDs as the case may be) is that if properly stored they hold on to information practically forever. Then again, they're easy to reprocess.

That's a pot with about 10 pounds of tomatoes.

This is an open-air hard drive. As you can see, inasmuch as the seal has not been broken, the warranty still stands.

And here are the platters getting ready for their spa treatment...

... which involves the ample application of heat.

In fairness this last process is entirely spurious, seeing how modern harddrive platters are made out of a glassy ceramic composite, which shatters easily. But, as a throwback to older times, back when 1.44 MBytes was ample space, capable of carrying all the porn one might want...